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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Lil Wayne wants an independent psychological examination ordered for his former part-time chef, who alleges she still has ongoing emotional distress after she was wrongfully fired in 2022 for leaving the rapper and his staff while she cared for her son after getting an emergency call.
Plaintiff Morghan Medlock's Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit states that she lost her job after she flew from Las Vegas to Los Angeles on Memorial Day weekend in 2022 to tend to her boy, who was then 10 years old. But in court papers filed Tuesday with Judge Kristin S. Escalante, the rapper's attorneys state that Medlock's mental state is "squarely in controversy in this action" and the plaintiff has refused to voluntarily undergo the psychological assessment.
"Even more, plaintiff is, incredibly, seeking not less than $500,000 in damages in connection with her claims," according to the court papers of the lawyers for the 41-year-old performer, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.
Medlock wants to avoid the assessment so she can testify during trial and ask for hundreds of thousands of dollars, or even millions, without the singer having the opportunity to have an expert testify about her condition and credibility, the songwriter's lawyers contend in their court papers.
Medlock maintains her son was injured during a basketball game, but found out that her son was "fine," that he was not hospitalized and that she "just monitored him for the evening," the rapper's lawyers maintain in their court papers.
But in her lawsuit filed last Dec. 20, Medlock says that while with the singer in Las Vegas she received a call from Los Angeles that her son suffered a severe head injury and a concussion requiring emergency hospitalization.
Though she was well aware of her job tasks and schedule and anticipated return date to Los Angeles, Ms. Medlock made her best efforts to coordinate her return to Los Angeles in conjunction with her job tasks and (the singer's) scheduled return to Los Angeles, which would have allowed her to then go directly to care for her son," the suit states.
Medlock was notified of her firing by a call from the entertainer's assistant, who relayed a message from the rapper stating, "Tell chef Morghan this isn't going to work," the suit states.